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Step 7Carving the Sword (Caliburn)
Now we're going to carve Saber Lily's sword called Caliburn out of wood.
1. First I found a large picture of Caliburn and blew it up on the computer until it was in proportion to my height compared to Saber Lily. Then I printed it out and drew the outline on a piece of plywood.
2. I cut out the outline of the sword with a jigsaw.
3. I used a chisel to make the blade slanted and sharp, then used a belt sander to smooth out the blade and round out the handle.
4. Using the sword you printed out, cut out the blue parts and then trace the holes onto the sword. You can also poke holes into the picture to make marks on the wood.
5. Find the highest point of the sword first and carve that out, then level off the rest of the sword. For this, the diamond in the middle is the tallest point. Keep doing this until you reach the lowest level. I didn't know much about wood carving, and the only real important thing I learned online is that you always should carve with the grain of the wood, otherwise the wood will crack instead of coming off smoothly.
6. For the indentations, cut around it with the knife, then use the U shaped scoop knife to scoop the wood out. For the more delicate areas, just use the straight knife or V shaped knife.
1. First I found a large picture of Caliburn and blew it up on the computer until it was in proportion to my height compared to Saber Lily. Then I printed it out and drew the outline on a piece of plywood.
2. I cut out the outline of the sword with a jigsaw.
3. I used a chisel to make the blade slanted and sharp, then used a belt sander to smooth out the blade and round out the handle.
4. Using the sword you printed out, cut out the blue parts and then trace the holes onto the sword. You can also poke holes into the picture to make marks on the wood.
5. Find the highest point of the sword first and carve that out, then level off the rest of the sword. For this, the diamond in the middle is the tallest point. Keep doing this until you reach the lowest level. I didn't know much about wood carving, and the only real important thing I learned online is that you always should carve with the grain of the wood, otherwise the wood will crack instead of coming off smoothly.
6. For the indentations, cut around it with the knife, then use the U shaped scoop knife to scoop the wood out. For the more delicate areas, just use the straight knife or V shaped knife.
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Mar 21, 2010. 5:37 PMAsobitai
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so right now, i'm carving the sword soon on a 2x4 piece of wood, but 2 inches thick is probably too much to make the edges. do you have a recommendation on what to do? the blade width is about 1/3 of a 4 inches, so I don't think there is enough space to make a smooth curve. I'm thinking I could either make the blade wider, but I only have a weird life size template that's made on 4 pieces of computer paper. then again, maybe I could make the thickness of the wood less by cutting it? ahh this is tough to do, I have no idea how you managed to get everything right. x_x
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Jan 20, 2010. 5:58 AMdeofthedead
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oh, for this will be very, very helpful when we actually go to make Rebellion for my other half's Devil May Cry4 Dante costume...
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